The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-03
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lyon say that you love me. said
tho charming young lady to the dude.
Il do" he replied. 'Then why do
you ask me to marry youP'-Bosson
Courier.
-Stranger-"Can you tell me when
tho band begins to play?" Officer
II kin; it's not deaf l be. Wait here,
and whin it sthroikes up Oi'n let ye2
know."-Judge.
A Frenchman says: When your
friend laughs it is for him to tell you
the cause OF his merriment; when your
friend cries it is for you to ascertain
the reason of his grief
In the local personal columns Of
the Utica IN. W Herald, is announced
the departure for China, on a pleasure
trip, Of 10 Sing and All Hum, ''rc.
spected members Of our celestial COM
munity."
fare some letters of the alphabet
male and some female" asked Mrs.
Jones of her husband. "Why, no,
dear; why do you aske' Il heard a
foreign missionary speak SO often o,
the Malays."
Bridget. l tink I'll shave off me
galways," remarked MI. Hoolahan,
sadly. ''Why. MickyP" 'The b'ys is
beginnin to ask me why l don't put
tassels onto that fringe" Washington
Critic.
Just think" said Mrs. Walkin tc
her modesto. ''the very next day after
my new black suit was sent home ]
was called to 60 out Of town to a
funeral" "Wasn't that nice!" was
the absent minded reply.-Boston
Commonwealth.
$50 you want TO be q newspaper
man, do youg' said tho city editor.
Eyes, sir" "Your last employer says
that you are very honest and truth.
full" Il don't think l ever told a lie,
sir" "Well-er-don't you think you
could learn?'- Washington Critic.
Take Warming
If men their wise physicians doubt
And still persist in dining oubt,
They'll rue the day
They have to pay
The painful penalties of goubt.
-7eras sifings.
Actors wife-''Why so depressed.
Clanda? What has como over youP"
Claude-I am cast for a part that il
unworthy of me. Still. if l decline i!
I am liable to be discharged. l really
do not know how to act under the cir.
cumstances." Wifc-"Well, Claude,
you don't know how to act under any
circumstances, so don't let that dis.
tress you?"-7eras Syitinqs.
distinguished foreigner-''Yes, ]
have travelled a great deal in this
country, and l can not help wondering
why your Government does not catch
these train-robbers and lock them up"
Have you met train-rob.
"Plenty of them; they're
everywhere, it seems to me, but I must
say they are very polite for highway.
"Politep" Every; and j
too, that they are all colored
"Oh, those are not train-rob-
bers; those are porters."- Omaha
World.
He was at the end of the car and
blew five loud and successive blasts on
his nose. A mar in the center Of tho
car sprang up, located the man. and
inquired: "Was that danger signal
or only your usual way Of blowing
your brains out?' 'If you will get off
The car I'll whip you in two minutes!"
said the man with the nose. as he
turned very red. "That settles it, and
| sit down. No danger, ladies-al]
keep your seats. 1t was one Of his |
usual biows.'-Ms Earth.
"A friend in the South asked o
negro girl her name. Matilda" wal
he nswe '.But that isn't your only
said the lady. Thus en-.
,ouraged. the girl glibly recited.
atilda Minerva Minolva Virginia
Jane (here memory fails me.
Tor my friend reported the entire NUM-
Der of names as eight. At the end of
;he recitation, the girl said, proudly,
My grandmother named me-" "But
haven't you any more names than
askel her mischioyous inter-
'ogator. Conscious of having made a
showing, the girl was puzzled to
answer so unusual a question. AT last
The said, slowly: my grandmother